 Nicolaas A. Rupke
Professor of the History of Science and Director Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Georg-August-Universität Goettingen Papendiek 16 D-37073 Goettingen Germany Email: nrupke@gwdg.de |
Nicolaas Rupke's research interests
are in the history of late-modern biological and physical sciences, particularly
those of Germany and Great Britain. He favours the biographical approach
and is the author of books on William Buckland, The Great Chain of History
(Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983), Richard Owen (Yale University
Press, New Haven and London, 1984) and Humboldt, Alexander von Humboldt: a Metabiography
(Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2005; Chicago University
Press, 2008). Moreover, Rupke is the editor of various
volumes that come under the heading "science and society", Vivisection
in Historical Perspective (1987), Science, Politics and the Public
Good (1988), Ideas and Ideologies (1994), Medical Geography
in Historical Perspective
(2000), and Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion (2007).
His many articles and reviews have
appeared in a range of scholarly journals. Current research is
on Goettingen scientific biography, including a study of Johann
Friedrich Blumenbach.
Rupke was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and received his formal education in the earth sciences with a BSc from Groningen (1968) and a PhD from Princeton (1972), specializing in marine geology. Among his scientific publications are a Smithsonian Contribution to the Earth Sciences, Distinctive Properties of Turbiditic and Hemipelagic Mud Layers (Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974), the chapter on "Deep clastic seas" in Sedimentary Environments and Facies (Oxford, Blackwell, 1978), as well as various articles in leading earth sciences journals. Rupke's research has been supported by fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Oxford, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, the National Humanities Center, and the ANU's Institute of Advanced Studies. During 1994-97, he was Director of the Goettingen Institute for the History of Medicine, and the following year inaugurated the Nelson O. Tyrone Chair in the History Department at Vanderbilt University. Upon his return to Göttingen he took over as Director of the Institute for the History of Science. He has been elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Geological Society of London, the Royal Historical Society, the German Academy of Science Leopoldina and the Göttingen Academy of Science.
Reviews Amerindian Research 2/2006, p. 54; here Nature (18 Mai 2006), p. 286; PDF-file (183 KB) here THES (28 June 2006), p. 24; JPG-file (225 KB) here Annals of Science vol. 63.4 (Oct. 2006). p. 516-17; JPG-file (200 KB) here History and Philosphy of the Life Sciences vol. 28.3 (2006), p. 436-38 JPG-file (300 KB) here Auto/Biography vol. 14.4 (2006), p. 396-98 JPG-file (300 KB) here The British Journal for the History of Science vol. 40 (2007), p. 293-94 PDF-file (35 KB) here INHIGEO (= International commission on the History of Geological Sciences) Newsletter No. 39 for 2006 (issued in 2007), p. 47-9 here Isis 98.1 (2007), p. 203-4 here Geografiska Annaler Series B 89.4 (2007), p. 406-7 here BIOS - Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen vol. 20.1 (2007), p. 157-8 here Archives of Natural History vol. 34 (April 2007), p. 200 here History Australia vol. 5.1 (2008), p. 241-243 here Forest History Today Fall 2008, p. 69 Discussions Progress in Human Geography vol. 31(1) [2007], esp. p. 69; PDF-file (150 KB) here Revista de História e Estudos Culturais vol. 4(3) [2007], esp. p.13-14; PDF-file (180 KB) here Bookreports HiN 12 (2006) Humboldtkosmos no. 87 (July 2006), p. 34-9; JPG-files (6 x ca. 120 KB) here History and Theory no. 46 (Febr. 2007), p. 94-95; PDF-file (60 KB) here
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